Percona

MAY 1, 2023

PostgreSQL performance optimization aims to improve the efficiency of a PostgreSQL database system by adjusting configurations and implementing best practices to identify and resolve bottlenecks, improve query speed, and maximize database throughput and responsiveness. What is PostgreSQL performance tuning?

Tuning 52

Tuning Efficiency Database Performance 52

Dynatrace

JULY 11, 2023

IBM Power servers enable customers to respond faster to business demands, protect data from core to cloud, and streamline insights and automation. Scalability and cloud-native support: Dynatrace is designed to scale effortlessly in dynamic Kubernetes environments. Dynatrace webhook server validates Dynakube definitions for correctness.

Architecture 174

Architecture Availability Infrastructure Monitoring 174

High Scalability

DECEMBER 16, 2022

It allows users to access and use shared computing resources, such as servers, storage, and applications, on demand and without the need to manage the underlying infrastructure. This means that users only pay for the computing resources they actually use, rather than having to invest in expensive hardware and software upfront.

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Cloud Serverless Internet Internet 201

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Serverless architecture shifts application hosting functions away from local servers onto those managed by providers. This means you no longer have to provision, scale, and maintain servers to run your applications, databases, and storage systems. Let’s get started. Serverless architecture: A primer. Simplicity. Compute services.

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Serverless AWS Lambda Storage 286

KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

PWAs are designed to work offline, be fast, and provide a seamless user experience across different devices. Motion UI Motion UI is a design trend involving animation and other interactive elements to create a more dynamic and engaging user experience. They thus adapt to the user's browser, screen size, and device specifications.

Artificial Intelligence 111

Artificial Intelligence Development Serverless Website 111

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Defining high availability In general terms, high availability refers to the continuous operation of a system with little to no interruption to end users in the event of hardware or software failures, power outages, or other disruptions. Load balancers can detect when a component is not responding and put traffic redirection in motion.

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Availability Database Open Source Hardware 105

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

It is common to see a value of “ 0″ ( or sometimes “10” ) on database servers, telling the kernel to prefer to swap to memory for better response times. 20-30% is a good general default for “dirty_ratio,” but on large-memory database servers, this can be a lot of memory.

Best Practices 52

Best Practices Design Tuning Database 52

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Enhanced Database Efficiency By adjusting configuration settings, you can markedly enhance the overall efficiency of your MySQL database. This results in expedited query execution, reduced resource utilization, and more efficient exploitation of the available hardware resources. Experiencing database performance issues?

Tuning 52

Tuning Database Performance Hardware 52

Dynatrace

APRIL 5, 2021

The 2014 launch of AWS Lambda marked a milestone in how organizations use cloud services to deliver their applications more efficiently, by running functions at the edge of the cloud without the cost and operational overhead of on-premises servers. What is AWS Lambda? How does AWS Lambda work? Optimizing Lambda for performance.

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Lambda AWS Serverless Hardware 184

Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

Discover key insights and strategic advice in our article, designed to steer you toward the best cloud solution that fits your company’s priorities. With performance optimization at its core along with mitigating risks associated with relying solely on one cloud provider or taking advantage of cost efficiencies. What is Hybrid Cloud?

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High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Each cloud-native evolution is about using the hardware more efficiently. There's a huge short-term and long-term efficiency of services that depends on the successful coordination of cloud services and infrastructure. Does anyone really want to go back to the VM-centric days when we rolled everything ourselves?

Cloud 187

Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Innovation 187

Percona

AUGUST 30, 2023

In general terms, here are potential trouble spots: Hardware failure: Manufacturing defects, wear and tear, physical damage, and other factors can cause hardware to fail. heat) can damage hardware components and prompt data loss. Human mistakes: Incorrect configuration is an all-too-common cause of hardware and software failure.

Database 85

Database Hardware Open Source Strategy 85

ACM Sigarch

MAY 31, 2023

Heterogeneous and Composable Memory (HCM) offers a feasible solution for terabyte- or petabyte-scale systems, addressing the performance and efficiency demands of emerging big-data applications. Given this state, Daniel projected two use cases of CXL technology in the public cloud; 1) reusing decommissioned DDR4 in DDR5 servers (CXL 1.1)

Latency 52

Latency Hardware Cache Architecture 52

ACM Sigarch

AUGUST 3, 2023

(Editor’s Note: This post was submitted as a rebuttal to Andrew Chien’s July 24 SIGARCH Blog Post ) The recent post “ Why Embodied Carbon is a poor Architecture Design metric, and Operational Carbon remains an important Problem ” by Prof. Andrew Chien rightfully raises awareness of the challenges of reducing operational carbon.

Energy 98

Energy Architecture Hardware Metrics 98

All Things Distributed

MARCH 19, 2018

So, when designing Amazon SageMaker we took on a challenge: to build machine learning algorithms that can handle an infinite amount of data. This post lifts the veil on some of the scientific, system design, and engineering decisions we made along the way. What does that even mean though? This sounds like a pipe dream.

Scalability 159

Scalability Hardware AWS Tuning 159

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

In 2010, Netflix introduced a technology to switch production software instances off at random — like setting a monkey loose in a server room — to test how the cloud handled its services. Intelligence from chaos testing funnels back to developers who can implement design changes that make software more durable and improve production quality.

Engineering 231

Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure 231

Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

To address these challenges, architects must design robust and scalable MongoDB databases and adopt appropriate sharding strategies that can efficiently handle increasing workloads while ensuring continuous availability. MongoDB distributes data across these shard servers to ensure an even distribution.

Best Practices 70

Best Practices Traffic Database Servers 70

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Like any move, a cloud migration requires a lot of planning and preparation, but it also has the potential to transform the scope, scale, and efficiency of how you deliver value to your customers. This can fundamentally transform how they work, make processes more efficient, and improve the overall customer experience. Here are three.

Cloud 169

Cloud Traffic Best Practices Strategy 169

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Compatibility Open source databases are designed with interoperability at their core, adhering to industry standards and offering support for a wide range of data import and export formats. These vendors often provide integrated stacks that include the database, application server, and other components that seamlessly integrate.

Open Source 89

Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 89

ACM Sigarch

JULY 17, 2023

We then discuss defects observed, the role of test and design to address this problem, and identify research opportunities. An example of a specification is the correct operation of the hardware of a microprocessor. While testing is important, exhaustive testing is challenging given the sheer size of modern processor designs.

Energy 52

Energy Hardware Best Practices Architecture 52

ACM Sigarch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

To be clear, these languages were not designed to be fast or space-efficient, but for ease of use. Unfortunately, languages like Python have proven resistant to efficient implementation, partly because of their design, and partly because of limitations imposed by the need to interop with C code. As Leiserson et al.

C++ 108

C++ Benchmarking Hardware Architecture 108

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Microsoft SQL Server I/O Basics Author: ​​ Bob Dorr, Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Published: ​​ December, 2004 SUMMARY: ​​ Learn the I/O requirements for Microsoft SQL Server database file operations. This will help you increase system performance and avoid I/O environment errors.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Media Hardware 40

The Morning Paper

MARCH 1, 2020

Firekube exists because none of the existing alternatives (virtualisation, containers or language-specific vms) met the combined needs of multi-tenant efficiency and strong isolation in the AWS environment. A modern commodity server can contain up to 1TB of RAM, and Lambda functions can use as little as 128MB.

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Serverless Virtualization Lambda AWS 101

Percona

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

In the Home Dashboard of PMM, a low CPU utilization on any of the database services that are being monitored could mean that the server is inactive or over-provisioned. Marked in red in Figure 1 is a server with less than 30% of CPU usage. Over-provisioned instances may lead to unnecessary infrastructure costs.

Cloud 116

Cloud Serverless AWS Storage 116

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory.

Performance 110

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 110

Percona

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Consequently, they might miss out on the benefits of integrating security into the SDLC, such as enhanced efficiency, speed, and quality in software delivery. It comprises numerous organizations from various sectors, including software, hardware, nonprofit, public, and academic.

Cloud 77

Cloud Open Source Strategy Best Practices 77

Percona

JANUARY 19, 2023

In this blog post, we will review key topics to consider for managing large datasets more efficiently in MySQL. Redundant indexes: It is known that accessing rows by fetching an index is more efficient than through a table scan in most cases. It can help us to save costs on storage and backup times.

Open Source 85

Open Source Storage Database Big Data 85

The Morning Paper

MAY 19, 2019

The focus of optimization hence will completely shift to efficiently handling RPCs at the endpoints as soon as they are delivered from the network. RPCValet balances incoming RPC requests among the multiple cores of a server. Consider a 16-core server handling 16 requests. In theory, how fast could we go?

Latency 80

Latency Hardware Network Architecture 80

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

Content is placed on the network of servers in the Open Connect CDN as close to the end user as possible, improving the streaming experience for our customers and reducing costs for both Netflix and our Internet Service Provider (ISP) partners. takes place in Amazon Web Services (AWS), whereas everything that happens afterwards (i.e.,

Open Source 279

Open Source Network Infrastructure Big Data 279

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

This is a given, whether you are using the highest quality hardware or lowest cost components. Many of those failure scenarios can be anticipated beforehand, but many more are unknown at design and build time. A good litmus test has been that if you need to SSH into a server or an instance, you still have more to automate.

AWS 144

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 144

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 28, 2020

From an operator perspective it makes it harder to follow the classic cloud-native design in which a global storage layer is separate to compute. Entry/exit in/out of V8 contexts is less expensive than hardware-based isolation mechanisms, keeping request processing latency low and throughput high. Shredder in action.

Serverless 99

Serverless Storage Latency Cloud 99

The Morning Paper

JANUARY 30, 2020

Edge servers are the middle ground – more compute power than a mobile device, but with latency of just a few ms. Edge servers are the middle ground – more compute power than a mobile device, but with latency of just a few ms. As such, web workers are a natural target to offload to a more powerful server.

Mobile 104

Mobile Cloud Latency Games 104

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Microsoft, ​​ Windows, ​​ Windows NT, ​​ and Windows Server ​​ are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

It can be hard to visualize the huge network of hardware that allows you to send a request for a page to a server and then receive a response back. Meet Adam Silver’s Form Design Patterns , a practical guide to designing and building forms for the web. Suddenly, that mirage was beginning to look rather more solid.

Website 135

Website Energy Internet Internet 135

Randon ASCII

OCTOBER 4, 2020

First, a bit of operating-system design context. The answer is hardware interrupts. CPU power efficiency is strongly tied to how long the CPU can stay asleep ( 8+ ms is apparently a good number ), and random wakeups work against that. Some programs (WPF, SQL Server, Quartz, PowerDirector, Chrome, the Go Runtime, many games, etc.)

Programming 145

Programming Games Hardware Operating System 145

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

If we asked whether their companies were using databases or web servers, no doubt 100% of the respondents would have said “yes.” A year after the first web servers became available, how many companies had websites or were experimenting with building them? Until AI reaches 100%, it’s still in the process of adoption. of users and 3.9%

Open Source 106

Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 106

SQL Performance

JANUARY 23, 2020

Tom Davidson, Opening Microsoft's Performance-Tuning Toolbox SQL Server Pro Magazine, December 2003. Waits and Queues has been used as a SQL Server performance tuning methodology since Tom Davidson published the above article as well as the well-known SQL Server 2005 Waits and Queues whitepaper in 2006.

Tuning 115

Tuning Servers Monitoring Hardware 115